The phrase "a position to admit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's ability or willingness to acknowledge or accept something, often in a formal context.
Example: "After careful consideration, she found herself in a position to admit her mistakes during the meeting."
Alternatives: "able to acknowledge" or "in a place to confess".
You also may need to call on your courage to address internal events, to take necessary risks, to change our position, to admit a mistake or to recover from a failure.
However, the city administration in Detroit was in no position to admit that the industrial sector was economically unsustainable and "did not heed the wake-up call of declining population until it got to the point of bankruptcy" (Khan 2013).
Zervos's suit essentially put the president in a position to either admit her story was true and apologize, or try to prove she lied about her account in court.
Zervos's suit essentially put the president in a position to either admit her story was true and apologize, or try to prove she lied about her account in court.
One need not agree with any of the council's positions to admit that, for a certain faction of American Jews, they have come back into style.
To be in this position is to admit that it needs some additional value too.
This line of thought would position him to admit that 'process death' is bad for us, but it is only the precursor to death.
You don't want to put management in a position where they have to admit they have made a hiring mistake.
But, as Proclus argues, such a position will force him to admit that the world has the capacity to constitute itself, which is absurd (see below).
It cuts to the heart of the matter, reduces a cause of their anxiety or anger, let you move on to other topics (including your own needs), takes the wind out of their sails if they're lambasting you, and puts you in a stronger position to ask them to admit fault themselves.
